Anita's Organic Bread & Coffee

Chilliwack's bakery trade has a longer memory than most cities of this size can claim. Twelve Mennonite families settled Yarrow in February 1928, on ground drained from Sumas Lake a few years earlier, and the baking they brought with them never left the valley. Zwieback, fruit platz and plain heavy loaves still turn up on counters in Yarrow, Sardis and the downtown. Layered over that is a newer trade in laminated pastry and long-fermented sourdough, and the two strands sit beside each other without much friction.

A website is published and no telephone number is, which is common enough for a bakery counter and means the site is where to check anything specific. Organic in a bakery's name is a claim about ingredients rather than about style, and what it covers varies from one operation to another. What comes out of the oven, and on which days, is not something this directory records, and it would be guesswork to describe it. Bakeries also tend to run on their own clock rather than ordinary retail hours, so a first visit is better made early than late. The unit number matters at an address like this one, since a numbered unit usually means a building shared with other tenancies, and the postal code will bring a map to the right block rather than the right door.